Pin ticket



Patented May 7, 1940 PIN TICKET Carl A. Flood, Framingham, Mass., assignor to Dennison Manufacturing Company, Framing ham, Mass., a corporation of Massachusetts Application October 2, 1935, Serial No. 43,205

3 Claims.

This invention relates toprice tickets for application to merchandise in department stores and the like and more particularly to tickets which carry not only price marks but also other indicia, usually in code, giving a more or less comprehensive description and history of the merchandise.

Objects of the invention are to provide a ticket which will receive all the indicia in a minimum space, which requires a minimumamount of space for the fastener used to attach the ticket to merchandise, which may be remarked by severing, along a straight line, the portion carrying the price mark and affixing a new mark without obliterating any of the other indicia, which can ticket from the merchandise and without inticket from the merchandising and without interference by said fastener, and which may be attached with a pin without exposing the point I. of the pin.

Other objects are to provide a ticket not only having the aforesaid characteristics but which is adapted to receive both the price marksand the identification indicia in duplicate sets arranged so that one set may be detached by severing the ticket along a'straight line as, for example, by means of a 'so-called chopping box commonly used by department stores to cut off one set of indicia and deposit it in a locked compartment 80 when the merchandise is sold, the other portion of the ticket remaining on the merchandise.

Thus the preferred embodiment of the invention has thefastening means, the .price marks and the identification indiciaarranged on dupli- 86 cate sections so that either one set of price marks and identification indicia may be severed along one straight line without obliterating the other set and without removing the ticket from the merchandise or both of the duplicate price marks 40 may be severed from the sections along another straight line without removing any of the other indicia and without detaching the ticket from the merchandise, while leaving space for other rows of price marks extending transversely of the 4' sections. While the duplicate sections may be separated by cutting they are preferably; divided by a weakened line to facilitate straight-line separation by tearing. I

To minimize the space for the fastener and 80 identification indicia and to correlate the width of this space with the corresponding dimension of the price-mark space, the identification indicia is preferably arranged in a staggered row along the fastener with successive groups of numbers I or letters ofiset relatively to each other transversely of the row. The ticket should be wide enough to receive the fastener and indicia in parallel relationship with the price mark extending transversely of the ticket at one end thereofand with sufiicient space between the price mark 5 and the identification indicia to receiveaddi-m tional price marks.

For the purpose ofillustration a typical embodiment of the invention is shown in the accompanying drawing in which,

Fig. l is a face view of a ticket; and

Fig. 2 is a section on line 2-2 of Fig. 1.

The particular embodiment of the invention chosen for the purpose of illustration comprises a two-ply ticket formed from a single piece of cardboard folded upon itself at the right-hand end and having its two faces cemented together. An opening I is formed through the top ply to facilitate the attachment of the ticket to an article of merchandise by means of the pin 2. In attaching the ticket to merchandise the pin is first inserted through the ticket from top to bottom at the, point 3 thence through a portion of the merchandise, thence through the ticket from bottom to top at the, point 4, and thence through the opening I in the top ply to a position between the two plies where the point of the pin is protected from the fingers and the merchandise. To facilitate the insertion of the point of the pin through the opening I to a position between the 39 two plies, the two plies are preferably not cemented together in the region of the opening.

Theaforesaid identification indicia is applied in a staggered row extending lengthwise of the ticket parallel to the pin 2 and the price mark is applied to the right-hand end of the ticket in the form of a row of numbers extending transversely of the ticket, with suflicient space between the'price mark and the identification indicia to apply one or more additional price marks 40 between the original mark and the indicia. Thus the article of merchandise may be repriced merely by/ cutting off the original mark along a line extending transversely of theticket and then applying another mark which also extends transversely of the ticket. In this way the article of merchandise may be remarked without obliterating any of the identification indicia and without detaching the ticket from the merchandise;

Inorder to leave a record of the article of merchandise in the store after the article is sold, the ticket is formed in two sections respectively locatedon opposite sides of the line 5. The two sections carry duplicate price marks and duplicate identification indicia correspondingly arranged and the-ticket has a row of perforations along the line 5 to facilitate separation of the two sections. Thus when the article is sold the lower section may be detached along the straight line 5 to preserve a record of the merchandise in the store. ,By arranging the parts as herein disclosed the lower section may be cut oil in an ordinary chopping box, along the line 5, without detaching the ticket from the merchandise.

It should be understood that the present disclosure is for the purpose of illustration only and that this invention includes all modifications and equivalents which fall within the scope of the appended claims.

I claim:

1. A price ticket comprising a plurality of long narrow sections interconnected along a weakened line extending lengthwise of the sections, the sections having price-mark spaces at corresponding ends for aligned rows of duplicate price marks extending transversely of the sections, each space extending lengthwise of the sections far enough to receive a plurality of rows of marks, the sec tions also having long narrow zones, extending from said spaces toward the other ends of the sections, for rows of identification indicia extending parallel to said line, and one of said sections having an attachment portion bounded on one end by one of said spaces and on one side by one of said zones.

2. A price ticket comprising a plurality of long narrow sections interconnected along a weakened line extending lengthwise of the sections, the sections having at corresponding ends price-mark spaces containing aligned rows of duplicate marks extending transversely of the sections, each space extending lengthwise of the sections far enough to receive a plurality of rows of marks, the sections also having long narrow zones extendin from said spaces toward the other end of the sections and containing rows of identification indicia extending parallel to said line, and an elongate fastener extending longitudinally of said line for attaching one of said sections in an elongate space bounded on one side by one of said zones and on one end by one of said spaces.

3. A price ticket comprising a plurality of long narrow sections interconnected along a weakened line extending lengthwise of the sections, the sections having at corresponding ends price-mark spaces containing parallel rows of duplicate price marks, each space being large-enough to receive additional price marks, the sections also having long narrow zones extending from said spaces toward the other end of the sections and containing rows of identification indicia extending parallel to saidline, and a pin extending longitudinally of said lineior attaching one 0! said sections in a long narrow space bounded on one side by one ofsaid zones and on one end by one or said spaces.

CARL A. FLOOD. 

